94 Quotes by Brad Bird

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.